Robert Clark (author)

{{Short description|American writer}}

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|name=Robert Clark

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1952|4|9}}

|birth_place=Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.

|occupation={{flatlist|

  • Novelist
  • writer

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|nationality=American

|genre=Non-fiction

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Robert Clark (born April 9, 1952{{cite web | url=http://www.chipublib.org/search/details/cn/1478260/ | title=Search | Chicago Public Library | BiblioCommons }}) is an American novelist and writer of nonfiction. He has received the Edgar,{{Cite web|title=Category List – Best Novel|url=https://edgarawards.com/category-list-best-novel/|access-date=2023-11-21|website=Edgar Awards}} James Beard and Julia Child awards, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and the Washington State Book Award as well as being a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the IMPAC Dublin Award. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow and his books have been TLS and New York Times Notable Books of the Year. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, he lives in New York City.

Works

=Fiction=

  • In the Deep Midwinter (1998)
  • Mr. White's Confession (1999)
  • Love Among the Ruins (2002)
  • Lives of the Artists (2005)

=Nonfiction=

  • James Beard: A Biography (1993)
  • River of the West: A Chronicle of the Columbia (1997)
  • The Solace of Food: A Life of James Beard (1998)
  • My Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith (2000)
  • Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces (2008)
  • My Victorians: Lost in the Nineteenth Century (2019)

References